Housing crisis

[MilkieTea]

So we are the same I guess. You call me childish I am observing your actions, you said I am incapable of understanding respect, I said "small thinker" I am observing your actions, you say I am not willing to listen but I have read and listened to every one of your words. I am sorry for offending you also!

I am not Setesh. Please look at usernames before replying.

[Jojoya]

Just gitgud at placard extreme and lottery later at Endwalker, also wishing you all to get the house plot wherever the location is

"gitgud at placard extreme" doesn't do much when in the end it's RNG that dictates the winner. People are bad at "placard extreme" have won simply because they showed up and clicked at the right moment.

It's both sad and irritating that this game has such a mess of a system for acquiring housing when other MMOs have shown it does not need to be this way. Their housing generates just as much discussion except that discussion is players sharing all the creative things they've done with their housing instead of focusing around whether or not they can even get a house.

The wards were a good base concept implemented badly. The common area for housing is a great idea for player socialization. Spreading out all the houses between 192 common areas per world (soon to become 240 common areas in 6.1) is not. What SE should have done was instanced the housing plots while leaving common areas in the ward uninstanced. Then players would be encountering each other as they go to and from their houses. As much as players trash apartments as housing, I see more players coming and going from the apartment building where I have the apartments for my alts in a week than I've seen passing by my main's house in 2 years. It happens because it's a common area acting as a portal to the instanced housing.

It's pretty sad that I can sit in the yard of my house, do a player search and see all of 60-80 other players listed as being in the same housing district - and knowing that those 60-80 players are spread between 48 different zones so at most there might be one or two others in my own ward (and likely on the far side where they won't see me and I won't see them). I don't live in a neighborhood, I live in a ghost town. It might be a more colorful ghost town in better repair than typical but it's just as devoid of life.

[Big_Bap]

Someone call 911, Jojoya's overdosing on their own koolaid once more.

[Darthgummibear]

The only housing crisis is the complete dumpster fire of housing acquisition. I'm tired of hearing how awesome housing is with having absolutely zero chance of ever obtaining one. This having to click a placard for hours garbage hoping you click at the exact right moment to beat out the other people fighting for the same plot is just that...garbage. I love this game to death, it's my home now, but the housing system is truly awful. Can't even get an apartment on my server...so everything in the game remotely related to owning a house might as well not exist, even training my chocobo or changing its color.

For all it's faults, ESO's base-game housing system is fantastic and should be used as a model for other games. I owned dozens of homes in that game and had already fully decorated several of them.

[Skivvy]

Someone call 911, Jojoya's overdosing on their own koolaid once more.

How so exactly? Which part do you disagree with?

[Kes13a]

beginning to think the troll had a good fishing trip...

[Snorky]

The only housing crisis is the complete dumpster fire of housing acquisition. I'm tired of hearing how awesome housing is with having absolutely zero chance of ever obtaining one. This having to click a placard for hours garbage hoping you click at the exact right moment to beat out the other people fighting for the same plot is just that...garbage. I love this game to death, it's my home now, but the housing system is truly awful. Can't even get an apartment on my server...so everything in the game remotely related to owning a house might as well not exist, even training my chocobo or changing its color.

For all it's faults, ESO's base-game housing system is fantastic and should be used as a model for other games. I owned dozens of homes in that game and had already fully decorated several of them.

I do agree with you, ESO did housing right. Trophy's from clearing dungeons and raids. I displayed them all. I had 18 houses. That was my end game. FFXIV could learn a thing or two from that housing system.

[FusiaRain]

I do agree with you, ESO did housing right. Trophy's from clearing dungeons and raids. I displayed them all. I had 18 houses. That was my end game. FFXIV could learn a thing or two from that housing system.

I'll be honest ffxiv has the worst housing possible. Even dcuo has it better, I can't think of one worse than ffxivs.

Its not that what they did is "bad", its just the system is made to screw people over be it luck etc. That they throw out just for idk how many percent but its lower than 69% of players on each world.

They need to pick a month and only work on housing plots/zones if they are going to keep up with a system that screws over the majority of players wanting in on that content.

The sad thing is they seem to put more work into pvp which most people seem to not care about one way or another. Than housing that has massive amount people caring about it.

[Darthgummibear]

I do agree with you, ESO did housing right. Trophy's from clearing dungeons and raids. I displayed them all. I had 18 houses. That was my end game. FFXIV could learn a thing or two from that housing system.

I really should post a couple screenshots of those homes. It's the one thing I miss from that game.

[Moonlite]

I'll be honest ffxiv has the worst housing possible. Even dcuo has it better, I can't think of one worse than ffxivs.

Its not that what they did is "bad", its just the system is made to screw people over be it luck etc. That they throw out just for idk how many percent but its lower than 69% of players on each world.

They need to pick a month and only work on housing plots/zones if they are going to keep up with a system that screws over the majority of players wanting in on that content.

The sad thing is they seem to put more work into pvp which most people seem to not care about one way or another. Than housing that has massive amount people caring about it.

I think housing has got way more work then PvP. They are always adding stuff to housing all the time, they will have literally done nothing in PvP for over two years. The only things more abandon then PvP are Grand Companies and squadrons(they couldn't add more missions and rewards at least). Also sucks they have intentionally sat on Ishgard housing for almost a year as well. They should be required to add new housing wards every patch till they can say everyone who earned/wants one has got one.